{"id":553,"date":"2015-07-30T21:08:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T04:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2016-04-28T12:35:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T19:35:41","slug":"la-brea-tar-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/30\/la-brea-tar-pits\/","title":{"rendered":"La Brea Tar Pits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151015x.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-554 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151015x.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151015x.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151015x.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151015x.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151015x.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On June 15, Carla and I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarpits.org\">La Brea Tar Pits and Museum<\/a>. We watched the 3D film there\u00a0<em>Titans of the Ice Age<\/em>. The museum has thousands of bones of extinct animals, retrieved from the tar pits. Here, Carla is guarding the remains of one of the animals:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_555\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151017-e1438315533470.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-555\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-555\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151017-e1438315533470-375x500.jpg?resize=375%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151017-e1438315533470.jpg?resize=375%2C500&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151017-e1438315533470.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151017-e1438315533470.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6151017-e1438315533470.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mammoth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We also got a tour of the tar pits and current excavations; there are still many old bones being recovered and cataloged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/family.riggslaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}